Thought and World

Klappentext Thought and World presents a theory of the content of semantic notions. Zusammenfassung This book presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. It represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. It also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Truth in the realm of thoughts; 3. The marriage of heaven and hell: reconciling deflationary semantics with correspondence intuitions; 4. Indexical representation and deflationary semantics; 5. Why meaning matters; 6. Into the wild blue yonder: non-designating concepts, vagueness, semantic paradox, and logical paradox.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christopher S Hill, Christopher S. Hill, Hill Christopher S.
• Con la collaborazione di: Jonathan Dancy (Editore), Ernest Sosa (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521892438
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89243-8
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism